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Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Year-end Lists 2024: Personal
I changed Gothgrrl's pseudonym to Dr. Doolittle when she graduated from veterinary school in May. She's also moved house twice, vacationed in Spain, bought a car, and started karate lessons. She's now preparing for her January wedding. Her fiancΓ© successfully defended his dissertation, "Oxy-Steam Fluidized bed Gasification of Southern Pine Biomass, Lignite Coal, Plastic Waste, and Their Blends for Hydrogen Production" published in the journal Energy, and graduated in December. They are Dr. and Dr. but they will be keeping different last names.
A big chunk of my year was devoted to remodeling the kitchen, which I already posted about. The garden was smaller than ever, which is just as well since I live alone. Besides, I couldn't do much canning because my stove was out of commission after the end of June.
My church decided that I did such a good job as Chairman of the Board that I should do it another year. I try to feel flattered, but it's one of those things that no one else wants to do.
Tommy (the cat) had most of his teeth pulled, and seems to be much happier with life now. That's sad, because it tells me he was in pain beforehand. Get your pets' teeth checked. Cats and dogs rarely have any trouble eating with fewer teeth. Apollo, at 13, is starting to show his age with arthritis and some hair issues. Marshmallow is a year older than Apollo, but seems the same as ever. Sundae got stuck high up in a tree and was rescued three times this year, each time involving a different stranger on an extension ladder grabbing her and dropping her to the ground. She has now learned that jumping to the ground is survivable.
My family has a lot to look forward to in 2025. Dr. Doolittle is getting married, Princess and her children will be staying with me for three months while her husband undergoes basic training, and I will be eligible for full Social Security benefits by summer. Meanwhile, we are all holding our breath about the H1B visa kerfluffle, hoping Dr. Soninlaw will be able to continue his energy research in the US. I would hate to see him take his American education and my daughter overseas to find work.
Thanks to you for being a part of my life in 2024, and I wish you a Happy New Year and a great 2025!
United State of Pop 2024 (Blame It on the Whiskey)
Every year since 2007, DJ Cummerbund gives us an artful mashup of the most popular pop songs of the previous year. For the year 2024, there's a distinct theme among the 25 biggest hits, and it's more than just a steady dance beat (with a bit of a country twang this time). These songs, or at least the lyrical clips used, all appear to reference regret, blame, and most of all, alcohol. Was it the current zeitgeist that inspired songwriters to go in that direction, or was it the mood of the nation that propelled these kinds of songs to the top? Or was it DJ Earworm's selective editing that brought out that theme? You can hear all the United States of Pop videos from 2007 to 2024 in this playlist.
Year-end Lists 2024: Miscellaneous
GoPro's Best of 2024
Some beautiful, some scary, all epic. I don't think anyone died making this compilation.
Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII.
Your top 100 complaints about 2024. Valid and hilarious.
Word of the Year 2024, from the Cambridge Dictionary (manifest), the Oxford University Press (brain rot), Collins Dictionary (brat), and Dictionary.com (demure).
The Top 10 Most Mispronounced Terms of 2024, According to TV Captioners.
Tom Whitwell's 52 things I learned in 2024.
The best advice we got in 2024.
Top Ten Dogs of 2024
Get a hankie for this one.
The most popular baby names of 2024.
The Best Board Games of 2024.
Here Are The Automakers That Recalled The Most Cars In 2024.
Car and Driver's Best Images of 2024.
10 times space missions went very wrong in 2024.
The 11 weirdest things humans did to robots in 2024.
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?
The Weirdest Things That Happened in 2024
See all the year-end lists here.
Miss Cellania's Links
The Many Sackings of Rome — Eight Times the Eternal City Was Captured and Pillaged.
Why rocket boosters are the size they are. (Thanks WTM!)
Stop Your Parchment Paper From Rolling Up Using One Simple Tip. They give you a second and third tip anyway.
Quiz: Do You Speak 2024? I scored only 6/10. (via Nag on the Lake)
Star Trek’s Cold War. While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space. (via Damn Interesting)
It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman. It's called an an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine. (via Metafilter)
“How He Came to Life One Day”: Photographs of Snowmen (1854–1950).
New Year's resolutions can be weird.
Champagne Opening
In which many people demonstrate all the ways you should not open a bottle of champagne. (via Bits and Pieces)
Time to Party!
New Year is coming!
— π πππ‘π‘π¦ (@54IGS77) December 29, 2024
Let's say goodbye to 2024...π pic.twitter.com/LaNDC3qvEz
Monday, December 30, 2024
Year-end Lists 2024: Best of Blogs and Websites
Freemius (un)wrapped! π
— Freemius (@freemius) December 27, 2024
We looked back at 2024 and found that you loved these posts the most! Take a peek at the thread π§΅π (1/4) pic.twitter.com/VbGYYviO1H
Yeah, I admit it, I posted this one ^ for the image.
The Top Ten Neatorama Posts of 2024.
Fark's 2024 Headline of the Year WINNERS. And category winners, too.
Wikipedia’s most popular articles of 2024. Wikipedia's full 2024 Year in Review.
Ten Top Smithsonian Stories of 2024.
The 20 most-read stories of 2024 on Ars Technica.
Our Favorite io9 Stories of 2024.
Mental Floss's 15 Most Popular Stories of 2024.
What Atlas Obscura Staffers Ticked Off Their Bucket Lists This Year.
Food & Wine's 10 Most-Read Food News Stories of 2024.
The 10 Most-Read Eater Stories This Year.
The Most-Read ProPublica Stories of 2024.
NPR's most-read stories of 2024 include a scam-fighter and zombie second mortgages.
JSTOR Daily's Most Popular Stories of 2024.
Longread's Most Popular Stories of the Year.
Counting Down McSweeney's 24 Most-Read Pieces of 2024.
Design Milk's 10 Art Posts of 2024.
The Public Domain Review's 10 Most Read Pieces from 2024.
See all the year-end lists here.Gonna start re-posting some of my favorites from this year - starting with this one, which pretty much sums up 2024 in three panels. pic.twitter.com/u1k29THXUL
— The Card (@JaggedAuthor) December 23, 2024
Year-end Lists 2024: Internet
Google's Year in Search
See Google's Year in Search stats by country or subject here.
A 2024 recap of YouTube on TV.
2024: A Year in Internet Hell.
In 2024, using social media felt worse than ever.
Elon Musk's 'social experiment on humanity': How X evolved in 2024.
Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review. Global internet usage stats.
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024.
Domo’s unveiled its annually anticipated 12th edition of Data Never Sleeps, offering a unique snapshot of how digital habits manifest themselves minute by minute.
The 29 Best Memes and Biggest Viral Moments of 2024.
The Most Viewed TikToks of 2024
See all the year-end lists here.
The Week Between Christmas and New Year's
We are in that weird time between two holidays that are too close to go back to school, but some people have to pretend to work and others don't, and some are dealing with Christmas fallout with guests still hanging around. We all try to act like it's a normal week even though it's not, and until I heard this song, I didn't realize how universal that feeling is.
Is this a weekday or a weekend? Did my Christmas company leave yesterday or the day before? How old are these leftovers? Should I start taking down the decorations? I missed several days of my regular daily activities- will I ever catch up? Is life ever going to be normal again? Brittlestar wrote a little song to put into words how discombobulated we all are, whether we are off work or not. (via Nag on the Lake)
Year-end Lists 2024: Politics
The Wildest Political Moments of 2024
The 20 Craziest Moments of the 2024 Presidential Race. One of the most consequential campaign seasons in American history was also one of the weirdest.
26 charts that helped explain 2024 in politics.
A wild year in politics, by the numbers.
2024: Ten big moments when politics and culture collided.
Global Elections in 2024: What We Learned in a Year of Political Disruption.
What did 2024 tell us about US voters?
The 10 worst political fails of 2024.
The 10 dumbest conspiracy theories of 2024.
PolitiFact's Lie of the Year
See all the year-end lists here.
Miss Cellania's Links
8 Foods That Are Considered Bad Luck on New Year’s.
Five Highly Regrettable Guinness World Records.
White Evangelicals’ Deportation of Jesus and His Teachings From Their Hearts and Minds. (via Fark)
Bess of Hardwick came from a struggling family, but grew rich by surviving four husbands. (via Strange Company)
John Farrier Made Licorice Empanadas. You'll find them either delightful or disgusting.
Cloth fibers ranked by how much sense they make to me. (via Metafilter)
Do me a favor and go give this lady a ♥ at Instagram. They said she wouldn't get as many ♥s as other library employees because she works behind the scenes instead of facing the public.
A Blast from the Past (2016): The Sweet and Not-So-Sweet History of Saccharin.
Despotism
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films produced this 1946 educational film to warn us about the signs that your community is sliding into despotism.
The two chief characteristics of despotism -- restricted respect and concentrated power -- are defined and illustrated. Two of the conditions which have historically promoted the growth of despotism are explained and exemplified. These are a slanted economic distribution and a strict control of the agencies of communication.(via Boing Boing)
Playing Cards Used as Dominoes
Posts from the oddlysatisfying(via Everlasting Blort)
community on Reddit
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Year-end Lists 2024: News
2024, in 4 minutes
What really mattered in 2024.
The US stories everyone was talking about in 2024.
The biggest international news stories of 2024.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2024. The stories they wish they'd written.
2024 World Press Freedom Index – journalism under political pressure.
How 2024 shaped journalism.
Breaking down 2024's biggest legal stories
The Soaring Highs and Deflating Lows of Commercial Spaceflight in 2024.
The Associated Press's 100 Photos of 2024: An epic catalog of humanity.
Reuters' Year in Pictures.
What went right in 2024: the top 25 good news stories of the year.
Six hopeful news stories you may have missed in 2024.
Time's Year in Review
See all the year-end lists here.
RIP Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter, the 39th President of the United States, passed away today at the age of 100. His was a life of public service, from the US Navy to the governments of Georgia and the US, to his 44-year retirement, during which he never stopped trying to make the world a better place.
Carter grew up on a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, population 600. He met his future wife Rosalynn when he was three years old and she was just three days old. They were married while he attended the Naval Academy in Annapolis and were together for 77 until her death last year.
As a navy lieutenant, Carter organized the dismantling of the Chalk River nuclear reactor after a meltdown in 1952. Listen to the story here. The harrowing project informed his later stance on nuclear policy.
In Georgia politics, Carter leveraged support from both civil rights activists and segregationists, and only revealed his anti-segregationist views after achieving the governorship.
As president, Carter inherited a country that had little faith in its government after Watergate, and a congress that had little faith in Carter. His anti-corruption stance, his reluctance to play the Washington game, and his tendency to micromanage put off the legislators whose support he needed to accomplish anything. He attempted to bring the country together in healing from the Vietnam War by pardoning all draft dodgers, which further divided the public's opinion on him. A poor economy was exacerbated by the energy crisis of 1979. Carter’s response was to ask Americans to cut back energy usage, which did not go down well.
Carter's record in foreign policy was mixed. He signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II with Russia, and engineered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel. Carter's decision to allow the deposed Shah of Iran to come to the US for medical treatment exacerbated a bad relationship with the new government in Iran, which blamed the US for installing the Shah in 1941. Iranian extremists captured dozens of Americans at the US Embassy in Tehran and kept them hostage for over a year, until the very day Carter left office.
In the decades since Carter's presidency, the failures of his administration are often seen as due to his commitment to doing what he considered the right thing, even when it was politically damaging or divisive. He was just too ethical for the office.
It was after Carter left office that he became the activist he wanted to be. In 1982, he declared war on the guinea worm, a parasite that caused untold misery in Africa. The infection went from 3.5 million cases per year to just 13 cases in 2022. Carter lent his name and his efforts, along with his wife Rosalynn, to Habitat for Humanity. Over 35 years, he helped build 4,390 new homes.
Carter also worked with world organizations to monitor elections in countries around the world. He worked with Nelson Mandela on issues of global justice and peace. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He also taught at Emory University for years, and led a Sunday school class in his native Plains until just a few years ago. He wrote more than 30 books on subjects from global politics to poetry. There will never be another like him.
Year-end Lists 2024: Food
Best NYC Food Spots Everyone's Talking About (2024)
The Best Restaurant Dishes of 2024.
The 26 Best Dishes We Ate Across the U.S. in 2024.
15 Top Food Trends of 2024.
The Wildest Food Trends That Defined 2024.
From Bundled Deals to Bigger Snacks: How America Ate in 2024.
The New York Times' Most Popular Recipes of 2024.
The 17 Recipes Serious Eats Editors Couldn’t Get Enough of This Year.
These Are My Favorite (Edible and Non-Edible) Food Discoveries of 2024.
The Best New Grocery Products of 2024.
The Best New Fast Food Items I Tried In 2024.
The 7 Most Unforgettable NFL Stadium Dishes Of 2024.
Punch's Most Popular Drink Recipes of 2024.
The Year in Popcorn Buckets.
The Best Food TV of 2024.
The Best (and Worst) Food TV and Movies of 2024.
Five Terrible Fast Food Items That Debuted In 2024.
Food recalls surged in 2024, highest since 2019.
2024 was a bad year for Food Safety. Here are the worst food safety incidences of the year.
And finally, this post wouldn't be complete without mentioning grocery prices, although they've been soaring for years now, due to pandemic disruption, avian flu, and corporate greed.
Prices on items I buy increased 75% from 2022 to 2024 [OC]
byu/StcStasi inpovertyfinance
See all the year-end lists here.
Rays: Floppy Sombreros of the Sea
Rays, whether they are manta rays, sting rays, or mobulas, swim in a different way from any other swimming creature. But you already knew that, and this video is from Ze Frank, so we also learn about their body teeth, their arrowhead with a stutter, their creepyholes, their waterfall of teeth, and their ampullae of lorenzini. You'll have to watch the video to find out what those are. Different kinds of rays have various weird ways of eating, and some even have superpowers. This particular True Facts video is rather clean compared to others in the series, but it's still pretty funny in places. There's a 70-second ad at 5:05.
Holidays: Know the Difference
Like the procrastinators that we all are, we pile up holidays toward the end of the year. But there are reasons. We have all this bountiful harvest from the summer. Besides, it's dark all the time and we need something to distract us from that. It's the last hurrah before the long slog of cold in January and February. This Venn diagram is from Matt Shirley.
Year-end Lists 2024: People
Time's Interviews of 2024
CNN Heroes of the Year.
The Future Perfect 50 2024. Innovators, thinkers & changemakers working to make the future a better place.
All our unsung heroes for the climate in 2024 are women.
Oldest living celebrities and famous people in 2024.
People's 25 Most Intriguing People of the Year.
The Best Dressed Celebrities of 2024.
The Hollywood Reporter’s 2024 Women in Entertainment Power 100.
The Associated Press's Breakthrough Entertainers.
10 Times Celebrities Were Called Out For Being "Out Of Touch" In 2024.
20 Scandals That Ruined Celebrities’ Reputations This Year.
Celebrities who had the worst year in 2024.
The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024.
Celebrities we lost in 2024.
In Memoriam
Update: Former president Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29th at the age of 100. See the post on his legacy here.
See all the year-end lists here.
The Most Aussie Interview Ever
That's the way this news report is being described all over. It's got everything: crime, drunk driving, a chase scene, and a local hero running around without clothing looking out for his mates, plus Today host Karl Stefanovic to give his reaction. All delivered with that unmistakable accent. But where's the swearing? Daniel McConnell, who chased the Brisbane hit-and-run driver in the above video, most likely had some colorful language of his own that night. (via reddit)
Medical Mystery
— Chronic Illness Memes (@chronicillnessmeme.bsky.social) December 26, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Two Mules for Sister Sara is a 1970 Western starring Clint Eastwood and Shirley MacLaine as a mercenary and a nun who get involved in the Mexican rebellion against the occupying French forces in the 1860s. I remember seeing this in a theater.
Year-end Lists 2024: Movies & TV
The 10 Best Movies of 2024
Sleepy Skunk's 2024 Movie Mashup. It's epic, as always.
The New York Time's Best Movies of 2024.
Vanity Fair's 22 Best Movies of 2024.
IMDb's Best 20 Movies of 2024.
Uproxx's Best Movies Of 2024.
Rotten Tomato's Best Movies of 2024.
The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers.
The best film scenes of 2024.
The 10 Best Horror Movies of 2024.
Screen Rant's 15 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of 2024.
Space.com's Best sci-fi movies of 2024.
The 10 Best Action Movies of 2024, Ranked.
15 Best Romance Movies Of 2024.
2024: the year of movie musicals.
The best animated movies of 2024.
What Marvel Accomplished in 2024.
The best and worst superhero movies of 2024, according to critics.
Metacritic's Worst Movies of 2024.
Collider's 10 Worst Movies of 2024, Ranked.
Top 10 Movies That BOMBED in 2024
The New York Times' Best TV Shows of 2024.
Uproxx's Best TV Shows Of 2024.
Inverse's 25 Best TV Shows of 2024, Ranked.
Ars Technica 2024: Our picks for the best of TV.
10 new TV shows from 2024 that are worth watching before the new year.
The Worst TV Shows of 2024.
The 10 Worst TV Cancellations of 2024, Ranked.
See all the year-end lists here.
Year-end Lists 2024: Video Games
10 Best New Video Games of 2024
The A.V. Club's best games of 2024.
Ars Technica’s top 20 video games of 2024.
Inverse's 10 Best Video Games, Ranked.
Inverse's Best RPGs, Ranked.
The Best Shooters Of 2024.
Inverse's 25 Best Indie Hidden Gems, Ranked.
The 15 Best Video Game Surprises Of 2024.
The Worst Video Games of 2024.
The 15 Biggest Video Game Disappointments Of 2024.
Top 10 Most Hated Video Games of 2024
See all the year-end lists here.
Year-end Lists 2024: Tech
All of the 2024 Tech News Stories Pretty Much
The top technology stories from 2024.
Tech’s 2024 winners and losers—from Elon Musk to GM’s Cruise.
Tech breakthroughs of 2024.
TechRadar Choice Awards 2024 winners.
The best inventions of 2024.
Popular Science's 50 greatest innovations of 2024.
5 breakthroughs that improved our lives this year — and 1 that didn’t.
Gizmodo's Best Gadgets of 2024: Our Favorite Phones, Laptops, Speakers, and More.
The 8 worst technology failures of 2024.
Worst science and tech fumbles of 2024.
The Most Disappointing Gadgets of 2024.
Tech that Died in 2024
See all the year-end lists here.
Dad Tries to Copy Daughter's Gymnastic Moves
Alex Mills is a 9-year-old gymnast in Melbourne, Australia, who's been training for three years now. Her Dad Ash decided he wanted to try it, too. Watch him try out the stunts she practices. You think you know what this video will show you, but stick with it and be surprised. It helps that Ash, a 41-year-old professional window washer, is a pretty athletic fellow to start with. Since Alex practices 30 hours a week, this is a way for them to have some fun together. You can see more of Ash and Alex at Instagram. (via Metafilter)
Cats and Babies
Cats have no problem recognizing infants of the human kind. They also recognize when they are no longer infants. My four cats have always been infinitely patient with my grandson. Now that he's two, they are just barely starting to teach him a lesson in how to handle cats. During the week he was visiting, he got hissed at once, and another cat gave him a small scratch for pulling a tail. Otherwise, they put up with a lot. In future visits, I can imagine he will be treated as old enough to know better. (Thanks, WTM!)We don't deserve cats pic.twitter.com/sRrdl4p7zB
— contents that ll heal your depression π» (@Catshealdeprsn) December 24, 2024
Friday, December 27, 2024
Year-end Lists 2024: Sports
Everything You Missed 2024 in Sports, in 5 Minutes
ESPN's best sports moments of 2024.
Sport in 2024: the moments that made us smile. This list is Eurocentric.
Caitlin Clark, Shohei Ohtani, Simone Biles among athletes that dominated the year.
The 2024 Awfulies: Best & worst sports media moments of the year.
Ranked: Sport's biggest controversies in 2024. It's a slideshow.
2024’s Top College Sports Scandals.
The Associated Press's top sports photos of 2024.
Paris 2024: Sporting highlights of the Olympic Games.
Soccer's best of 2024: Players of the year, best goal, games.
The funniest moments in Premier League in 2024.
2024’s Top 5 NFL Moments.
Top 5 unforgettable MLB moments that fans will cherish forever in 2024.
Ten moments you'll never forget from the 2024 tennis season.
2024 was memorable, emotional year for hockey world.
The Best Boxing Knockouts of 2024. Watch them all again.
MMA 2024 awards: The best fighters, KO, prospect and more.
The Most Cinematic Extreme Sports Moments of 2024.
Memorable and Amusing Sports Moments of 2024
See all the year-end lists here.
When Christmas is Finally Over
I can so relate to this. You love your family, and you love it when they come visit. At the same time, spending weeks getting the house cleaned and the pantry stocked only to see the house wrecked and the refrigerator emptied in no time when they all get there... well, it makes you realized how tiring all this merriment can be. Your normal schedule is thrown off, you tense up hoping to make it through, and everyone is trying their best not to offend each other. You notice everyone's weird behavior while they are noticing yours, too, yet everyone is pretending it's all okay. but that's just the downside. Years from now, you'll only remember the best parts of the visit, and that will give you the strength to do it all over again. These common facets of a family get together are perfectly illustrated by Foil Arms and Hog.
Year-end Lists 2024: Science
2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Biology and Neuroscience
Science magazine's 2024 Breakthrough of the Year: an injection that protects people from HIV for six months.
The biggest science stories that lit up our world in 2024.
The Ten Most Significant Science Stories of 2024.
Two advances in quantum error correction share the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year.
The Biggest Junk Science of 2024.
The 16 stories that shaped physics and astronomy in 2024.
The 6 Biggest Space Stories of 2024.
The Ten Most Awe-Inspiring Ocean Moments of 2024.
The Year in Biology.
Wild Things We Learned about the Human Body in 2024.
The Biggest Medical Breakthroughs of 2024.
The Top Ten Dinosaur Discoveries of 2024.
The Coolest Archaeological Discoveries of 2024.
The best science images of 2024 — Nature’s picks.
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners.
2024's Biggest Breakthroughs in Computer Science
See all the year-end lists here.
The Truth About the McDonald's Coffee Lawsuit
Adam Conover of Adam Ruins Everything explains what really happened in that case where the woman sued McDonalds over the coffee she spilled in her lap. You may have heard it was a frivolous case based on greed. But you probably heard that from McDonalds.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Swimming on the Moon
The question for this episode of the What If? series was, if there were a lake on the moon, what would it be like to swim in it? Well, there is no lake on the moon, but someday there might possibly be as swimming pool. It would have to be sheltered from the elements just like the astronauts have to wear helmets. Safely inside a secured moon base, a pool would be a lot of fun. See, physics works the same on the moon, but the gravity is different from that on earth, leading to the kind of fun Randall Munroe is famous for.
Alas, real astronauts know better than to get their hopes up about a pool on the moon. The cost of transporting that much water would be, dare I say it, astronomical.
Year-end Lists 2024: Music
The Biggest Music News Stories of 2024.
Biggest Music Legal Stories 2024.
The best and biggest concerts of 2024.
Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of 2024.
Vulture's Best Albums of 2024.
Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2024.
Uproxx's Best Albums of 2024.
Vulture's Best Albums of 2024.
Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2024.
Uproxx's Best Albums of 2024.
NPR's 50 best albums of 2024.
The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2024.
The 20 best new jazz albums of 2024: Jazzwise critics' poll.
The 10 Best Country Albums of 2024.
The 30 Best Rock Albums of 2024.
What made the Associated Press's list of the top songs of 2024?
Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of 2024.
Uproxx's Best Songs of 2024.
Billboard's 10 Best Country Songs of 2024.
Spotify's Most Viewed Music Videos of 2024.
See all the year-end lists here.
Year-end Lists 2024: Books
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of 2024.
The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2024.
The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024.
The Best Books of 2024, as Chosen by Smithsonian Scholars.
Lit Hub’s 38 Favorite Books of 2024.
The Associated Press's 10 notable books of 2024.
The Best Nonfiction of 2024.
Smithsonian's Best Books About Travel of 2024.
Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books of 2024.
The 10 best thrillers of 2024.
2024’s Best Mysteries, Thrillers, and True Crime.
The Best Horror of 2024.
Smithsonian's Ten Best Photography Books of 2024.
The Best Romance Fiction of 2024.
The 10 best biographies and memoirs of 2024.
Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2024.
The 19 Best Cookbooks of 2024.
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2024.
Barnes & Noble's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2024.
Den of Geek’s Best Books of 2024.
The best comic books of 2024.
The Best YA Books of 2024.
Best Children’s Books of the Year.
The 2025 Tournament of Books Long List. The best titles of 2024 will duke it out in March, so start reading now.
The winners of the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards. The best of Canadian literature.
Or you can pick and choose more lists of great books from the past year at LitHub's Ultimate Best Books of 2024 List.
See all the year-end lists here.
Last Call for Mr. Paul
Being late for your flight is a panicky feeling. Jason Paul has no time at all to get on board, and the Munich airport is huge. Luckily, he is a professional freerunner. Catch a golf cart? Too slow. Security lines? Jump past them. Waiting for an elevator? No way! He's gotta catch that plane to Ibiza before it takes off! PS: Don't try this at an American airport, you'll be shot plowing through security like that. (via Laughing Squid)
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